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News, dates, and meetings of interest to the history of astronomy and the working group

Upcoming dates:

 externer Verweis   2024, September 9-10, Köln:
           Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
           Auf den Spuren historischer Sternwarten (On the Trail of Historical Observatories)
          
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;

interner Verweis 2023, September:
     The  "Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol 70" have been published.
      Hans Gaab: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677 - 1750) - Sein Leben, seine Schriften, seine Karten, seine Globen  (in German)

externer Verweis   2023, September 10 -11, Berlin:
           Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
           Entwicklung der Astrophysik (Evolution of Astrophysics)
          
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;

interner Verweis 2023, January:
     The  "Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol 69" have been published.
      They contain the "Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte Vol. 15"       (in German)

interner Verweis 2022, December:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 53 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

externer Verweis  2022, September 16 -18, Bremen:
        Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
        Instrumente, Methoden und Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
       
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt
;
        Meeting of the members of the workung group (election of president and secretary)

Item  2022, May 7, Jena:
        S
mall colloquium on the 450th anniversary of Kepler.
        Meeting location: restaurant and hotel "Haus im Sack", Jena, Oberlauengasse 14-17
        This is the originally in November 2021 planned meeting that had to be cancelled
         due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
        The program is interner Verweis available here pdf. (in German)

interner Verweis 2022, April:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 52 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

interner Verweis 2021, December:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 51 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

Item  2021, November
        Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann, former director of the Archenhold-Observatory, Berlin,
        died at the age of 82.
        Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann was a member of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the
        German Astronmical Society

        externer Verweis   Obituary of the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin  (in German)
        externer Verweis   Obituary of the German Astronmical Society  (in German)

link to external page  2021 September:
        Virtual Splintermeeting at the AG meeting between September 13 - 17, 2021,
        Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy,
        organized by Susanne M Hoffmann and Gudrun Wolfschmidt
        This meeting replaces the colloquium 2021.

externer Verweis  2021, September
        The proceedings of the Splinter Meeting of the working group

        "Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy"
        held during the virtual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 have been published
:
        
Nuncius Hamburgensis; Vol. 55

interner Verweis  2021, August
        Vol. 68 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
        Contents: Rolf Riekher: Der Briefwechsel Georg von Reichenbachs -
                   Briefe und Dokumente aus der Ära Fraunhofer, Reichenbach und Utzschneider Vol. 2

interner Verweis  2021, June
        Vol. 67 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
        Günther Oestmann, Jürgen Hamel: 625 Jahre astronomische Uhr in St. Nikolai zu Stralsund –
        Himmelskunde und Weltbild im Mittelalter

interner Verweis 2021, May:
     The  "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 50 have been published  link to PDF document       (in German)

link to external page  2020, September:
       The Simon Marius Gesellschaft has published a short video on Simon Marius, his life and his research.

link to external page  2020,  August 30 and 31, Berlin:
       planned but then cancelled colloquium of the working group
 

       Entscheidende Ereignisse/Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
        (in German)
        (link to PDF document  cancel notification see Mitt. Nr. 48a  (in German))

 

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last update:  2024-03-03   by H. Steinle